joy

😂

Meaning

1. A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
2. Anything that causes such a feeling.
3. Luck or success; a positive outcome.
4. (obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.

be delighted

bonheur

ecstacy

great joy

act of rejoicing

goldness

rejoicement

be glad

be pleased

comfortable feeling

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/d͡ʒɔɪ/

From Middle English joye, borrowed from Old French joie, from Late Latin gaudia, neuter plural (mistaken as feminine singular) of Latin gaudium (“joy”), from gaudēre (“to be glad, rejoice”). Doublet of jo and gaudy (“Oxford college reunion”). Displaced native Old English ġefēa.

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